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Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine introduced legislation to help prevent opioid overdose deaths by encouraging physicians to co-prescribe the life-saving drug naloxone alongside opioid prescriptions and by making naloxone more widely available in federal health settings.
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As part of his continuing efforts to address a troubling rise in heroin and prescription drug overdose fatalities in the Commonwealth, Attorney General Mark Herring reported in on milestones in the first year of his Five Point Plan to Combat Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse.
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined 17 of his Senate colleagues in a letter urging increased funding for critical prescription drug abuse prevention, treatment and research programs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine met with White House Drug Policy Acting Director Michael Botticelli to discuss the opioid crisis in Virginia and next steps to combat the epidemic.
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The McKinsey & Co. consulting firm is being held criminally responsible for its advice to Purdue Pharma to “turbocharge” sales of OxyContin, precipitating the ongoing national opioid crisis.
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Our region of Virginia has known firsthand the devastation of the opioid crisis. In recent years, a new threat has driven up fatal drug overdoses: fentanyl and its analogues.
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The resolution of the lawsuit against the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, will make public tens of millions of documents related to their role in the opioid crisis, and require a payment of more than $4.3 billion for prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts in communities across the country.
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This week, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine will travel to the Shenandoah Valley, Southwest Virginia, and Charlottesville to discuss job training, education, and the opioid crisis.
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You read about the opioid crisis, about heroin making its return, about the Valley’s problems with meth, and you, of course, know all about the ongoing, strenuous efforts to go after the drug dealers. But, are the drug dealers the problem?
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The 115th Congress has been working to improve the lives of average Americans: from taking on the opioid crisis to cutting taxes for the great majority of Americans.
